Books
The Gist of Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy [2]
PART TWO: THE KIND OF CHRISTIAN I AM 5. WHY I AM MISSIONAL The term ‘missional’ was popularized in the 1990s by the Gospel and Our Culture Network (gocn.org), and its important book ‘The Missional Church’ (Darrell Guder et.al, 1998). Earlier David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin and Vincent Donovan insisted that theology ought to be a […]
Book review: Travesty, by John Laughland
Z Magazine April 2007 Review by Edward S. Herman Review of John Laughland, Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice (London/Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007). John Laughland’s superb new book , Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice, is the fourth important critical study of […]
Where Have All The Prophets Gone?
Here’s the gist of Marvin McMickle’s Where Have All The Prophets Gone? Reclaiming Prophetic Preaching in America, 2006. It’s black writing-as-preaching at its most passionate, biblically enlightened, and intelligent (he has a couple of earned Drs). When (American) preaching isn’t prophetic you won’t hear anything about the two million persons packed into overcrowded prisons, most […]
F W Boreham’s latest – Lover of Life
LOVER OF LIFE: F W BOREHAM’S TRIBUTE TO HIS MENTOR ‘Mr. Doke’, as Boreham respectfully calls his friend and mentor, was by all accounts – or at least this one – a most amazing human being and pastor. Here we have John Broadbanks Publishing’s first effort at re-issuing out-of-print F W Boreham books. Congratulations to […]
A Book about Sydney Anglicans
Highly regarded… Chris McGillion’s ‘The Chosen Ones: The Politics of Salvation in the Anglican Church’ (2005) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2005/1364782.htm http://www.smh.com.au/news/Chris-McGillion/Anglicans-must-accept-moral-diversity-to-protect-universality/2005/02/28/1109546794151.html Cheers Peter (from Ridley College Bookshop)
Ushpizin movie
From a friend: We recently borrowed Ushpizin, an Israeli film with English sub-titles. It provides wonderful glimpses of Orthodox Jewish life as a poor couple, Moshe and Mali, prepare for the Feast of Succoth. They exercise the Jewish custom of receiving guests for the holy week (Ushpizin), when two escaped convicts, friends from Moshe’s past, […]
Religion and Redemption in Black Snake Moan
Sightings 3/29/07 — Kristen Tobey While many reviews describe Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan as a movie about religion, the immediate impression one gets from the trailers and posters is more accurate: The film is primarily about a barely-clad woman named Rae chained to a radiator. Some have argued that the religious elements serve only […]
Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test? [2]
From a knowledgeable netfriend (you’ll figure out his comments as distinct from the original): March 27, 2007 Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test? Dr. James Emery White Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department of Boston University, has written a new book titled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn t. […]
Huston Smith: The Soul of Christianity
Huston Smith: The Soul of Christianity, HarperSanFrancisco 2005. Huston Smith, son of Methodist missionaries in China, friend of Thomas Merton and Joseph Campbell, teacher and friend of Marcus Borg, wrote this book in 2004, and says it was ‘the most exciting year of my writing’. His parents’ first child, whom he never knew, died in […]
Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test?
March 27, 2007 Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test? Dr. James Emery White Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department of Boston University, has written a new book titled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t. For the last two years, Prothero has administered a fifteen-question quiz he gives his […]
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